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Accepted Manuscript Title: Long Term Conservation Agriculture and Intensified Cropping Systems: Effect on Growth, Yield, Water and Energy-use Efficiency of Maize in North-Western India
Author: C.M. Parihar, M.R. Yadav, S.L. Jat, A.K. Singh, B. Kumar, V. Pooniya, S. Pradhan, R.K. Verma, M.L. Jat, R.K. Jat and Y.S. Saharawat
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Long Term Conservation Agriculture and Intensified Cropping Systems: Effect on Growth, Yield, Water and Energy-use Efficiency of Maize in North-Western India
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C.M. Parihar1*, M.R. Yadav2, S.L. Jat1, A.K. Singh1, B. Kumar1, V. Pooniya2, S. Pradhan2, R.K.Verma2, M.L. Jat3, R.K. Jat4 and Y.S.Saharawat5 1
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ICAR-Indian Institute of Maize Research (IIMR), New Delhi-110 012 (India) ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi-110 012 (India) 3 International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) NASC Complex, New Delhi110 012 (India) 4 Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA)-Bihar (India) 5 International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Kabul - 11082010, (Afghanistan)
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Conservation agriculture (CA) based best-bet crop management practices may increase crop and water productivity, while conserving and sustaining natural resources. Therefore, we
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evaluated kharif maize performance in 2014 under long-term tillage practices [permanent bed
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(PB) and zero tillage (ZT)] with conventional till (CT) as main plots and four irrigated maize based systems [maize-wheat-mungbean (MWMb), maize-chickpea-Sesbania (MCS), maizemustard-mungbean (MMuMb) and maize-maize-Sesbania (MMS)] in sub plots under an ongoing trial established in 2008. In seventh kharif season at fixed plots the growth parameters, yield attributes, yield, water and energy-use efficiency of maize was maximum in ZT plots. The maize
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growth parameters were significantly (P
